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Charles S. Clark

Charlie Clark joined Government Executive in the fall of 2009. He has been on staff at The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, Time-Life Books, Tax Analysts, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and the National Center on Education and the Economy. He has written or edited online news, daily news stories, long features, wire copy, magazines, books and organizational media strategies.

December 8, 2016
The Patent and Trademark Office came under fire on Wednesday by lawmakers and an inspector general who retain their past skepticism that the agency—with its famed telework program-- is doing enough to curb time-card abuse by some examiners. While the agency delivered an upbeat progress report and the union leader...

December 8, 2016
With the transition to a Trump administration well under way, the General Services Administration is moving to further institutionalize the Obama administration’s push to make agencies more efficient and effective stewards of taxpayer dollars by sharing more back-end administrative services and adopting category management as a procurement model. On Wednesday,...

December 8, 2016
Wednesday’s House oversight hearing was supposed to address time-and-attendance troubles at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. But one congressman actively seeking the impeachment of the Internal Revenue commissioner used his time to question a good-government nonprofit for having given IRS chief John Koskinen a public service award. Rep. Jim...

December 7, 2016
After two years’ research, Republicans on the main House oversight panel on Tuesday released a report blasting the State Department for building embassies overseas that “prioritize… architectural significance over security and cost efficiency.” Department officials and Democrats on the committee disagreed. The staff report from the Oversight and Government Reform...

December 7, 2016
One of President-elect Donald Trump’s first appointments was Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to take on the all-consuming job of White House chief of staff. On Tuesday evening, Priebus got some tips on how to approach the Herculean task of playing wingman to the world’s most powerful executive, courtesy...

December 6, 2016
With the words “exclusive” and “Bob Woodward” on top of its story, The Washington Post’s Tuesday expose on a “buried” Pentagon study that identified an $125 billion in waste over five years drew considerable attention. Several lawmakers, the Defense Department’s chief union and at least one anti-waste advocacy group greeted...

December 6, 2016
On its way toward President Obama is a bill passed by the Senate last week aimed at improving agency program management and creating a new federal career path focused on that discipline. In a unanimous vote on Wednesday, the Senate approved a modified House version of the 2015 Program Management...

December 6, 2016
Two counselors at the Phoenix, Ariz., veterans hospital who blew the whistle on lapsed suicide-prevention procedures prompted changes that are saving lives, the Office of Special Counsel said on Monday. In letters to the White House and Congress, the independent investigative agency said it verified disclosures from Brandon Coleman and...

December 5, 2016
In the latest sentencing in the Navy bribery scandal revolving around businessman “Fat Leonard,” a former supervisory contracting officer on Friday was sentenced to 72 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for steering U.S. Navy deals to the president of a defense contractor. Paul Simpkins, 62, of Haymarket,...

December 5, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump’s orchestrated and secretive process for selecting a Cabinet has brought “refreshing energy” to the transition, Vice President-elect Mike Pence said on Sunday’s ABC News “This Week.” “He's not only bringing together a Cabinet at a historic pace for the last 40 years, he's not only assembling a...

Database-level encryption had its origins in the 1990s and early 2000s in response to very basic risks which largely revolved around the theft of servers, backup tapes and other physical-layer assets. As noted in Verizon’s 2014, Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)1, threats today are far more advanced and dangerous.

In order to better understand the current state of external and internal-facing agency workplace applications, Government Business Council (GBC) and Riverbed undertook an in-depth research study of federal employees. Overall, survey findings indicate that federal IT applications still face a gamut of challenges with regard to quality, reliability, and performance management.

PIV- I And Multifactor Authentication: The Best Defense for Federal Government Contractors

This white paper explores NIST SP 800-171 and why compliance is critical to federal government contractors, especially those that work with the Department of Defense, as well as how leveraging PIV-I credentialing with multifactor authentication can be used as a defense against cyberattacks

This research study aims to understand how state and local leaders regard their agency’s innovation efforts and what they are doing to overcome the challenges they face in successfully implementing these efforts.

The U.S. healthcare industry is rapidly moving away from traditional fee-for-service models and towards value-based purchasing that reimburses physicians for quality of care in place of frequency of care.